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Boids Spherical Gravity (BLEND provided)

Hi All,

I was playing around with particle systems, boids, fields and collision. I came up with a rough draft of an object based particle set attracting to a point, they can never reach. They can never reach the point because the point lies inside a deflector or collision mesh.

Cool Atom!
You know you can get closer to cinema's dynamics whith Aligorith GSOC build, don't we need that soon? Please see this tweak on your cool file... the blend will only work on that build. I've read it won't be easy to implement that stuff on particles or dupliverts, because of some Blender limitations.

There was a thread about this branch some time ago, where user Sinan linked to his blog... you could try the build there, as I think it is the one I used.
edit: the file is just a fast test over your work, to be able to render disable vector pass and blur... this branch is a lot of fun!

Yep it's physics based, but is a nice implementation of bullet physics, so simple to use as you don't need to go to game mode and record anything... if this could be implemented at dupliobjects level it would look a lot like cinema's modynamics stuff, maybe even better. And the guy promised some updates on his branch, he's been working in his own svn tools to do this -I hope-.

Forgive me for disrupting your thread, I felt like this was related to the effect you where trying to get. And again, cool animation, the problem is that boids may not be that clever after all